Netflix Echoes recap guide: All 7 episodes explained

Netflix Echoes episode 7 recap: Falls

The Echoes series finale launches in the midst of the flames, with Leni not backing down from their twin bond to stick together through thick and thin. Gina reaches for the gun, but Leni kicks it further under the couch. When Leni looks away, Gina runs up the stairs. Leni grabs an ax and follows her, smoke inhalation be damned.

She searches through each room, and when she catches sight of the bathtub, a memory flickers of it overflowing and dotted with apple blossoms. Leni’s mother also flashes in a memory. As Gina struggles to escape through a window, Leni breaks down the door with the ax. Time is running out.

Suddenly, we’re back at the night of the church fire. Leni watches Gina and Dylan have sex from the back of the church and starts the fire. She makes a noise on her way out and drops the lion charm from her bracelet. Before exiting the church, she sees the man above her but doesn’t appear to show remorse for setting the building on fire. The truth is revealed at last.

Back at the McCleary house, Gina escapes from the bedroom window, and Leni watches her run across the ranch and take off on a horse. Outside, Jack approaches Leni, who runs after Gina as he calls for help. Leni chases after her sister, and when Gina fears she’s reached a dead end, she dismounts the horse and injures her ankle on the way down. Leni takes off after her on foot.

Leni tries to plead with Gina to come back to her, that they can start something new, that she can be anything she wants. When Leni isn’t looking, Gina whacks her over the head with a rock. She awakes from her childhood flashback and finds Gina stumbling across the waterfall. Leni tackles Gina and attempts to drown her in the rushing water. Suddenly, she remembers witnessing her father drowning their dying mother in the bathtub and confesses the truth to Gina.

She admits what she saw to Gina and how their father assumed Gina was the one who saw through the crack in the door. Leni believes their father killed their mother, but Gina assures her that’s what her mother wanted because she was suffering. They disagree about what Leni saw meant, and it’s clear that witnessing that act had an immense affect on Leni. Also? It was the beginning of the “Bad Gina” persona.

Gina intentionally falls backward off the side of the waterfall, seemingly choosing to end their lifelong back and forth battle the only way she can. Leni shrieks in horror, but we don’t see Gina’s body.

While investigating the scene of the fire, Floss finds a bracelet with charms that Jack says the girls wore as kids. She doesn’t press and gathers a search party to find Leni and Gina. Later that night, Leni sits in the back of an ambulance and talks to Floss, who doesn’t believe any of the stories Leni has told her about Dylan’s death, her father’s death, and Gina.

Stuck on the bracelet, Floss asks Paula to pull the evidence boxes from the night of the church fire. Paula finds what Floss is looking for: Leni’s lion charm. After Leni meets with a lawyer, she meets with Paula at the diner. Paula gives Leni the lion charm to keep Floss off the scent of piecing the crimes together. We’re led to believe Paula was risking her job to help Leni, but twist! It’s part of Floss’s plan to nab Leni once and for all.

Leni leaves the diner and is somehow able to evade being grabbed by the police. She drops the charm in a trash can and visits Mattie from a fence outside her school, giving what seems to be her goodbyes. At the same time, Floss and her team burst into Jack’s house looking for Leni. She’s not there and no one can find her. Finally, Floss sees the lion statue in the home and everything clicks.

Try as they might, Leni (sans Southern drawl) has made it to the airport with a fake passport on her way to Australia. The TSA agent mentions someone who looked just like her came through her line the day before on the way to Kansas. Could it have been Gina?

Floss sits down at her desk and notices an envelope with her name on it, which she opens and finds a flash dive. We can assume it’s the flash drive containing the backups of Leni and Gina’s shared digital diary. All of their dirty little secrets are now in the detective’s possession, not that it matters since one twin is presumed dead and the other is missing (for real this time).

Is that Leni or Gina at the end of Echoes?

Charlie wrote a book titled Leni and Gina and holds a reading at a bookstore. During his reading, a woman wearing a large hat and sunglasses pushes through the crowd and asks a loaded question about the sister who killed herself in the falls: “Did they ever find a body?” He replies that they didn’t, and he’s visibly suspicious about the woman who asked the question. She looks strikingly similar to Leni and Gina.

Back at Charlie’s home, he fixes a drink and speaks to someone entering the room about not changing the locks. He claims he was unrealistically holding out hope. “This changed me,” he says. The woman comes clearly into frame and it’s… Leni! Or Gina?! He prods her about asking the first question at the reading, but she claims she’s been waiting at the house for over an hour. Charlie tells her that he’ll eventually find out which twin she is and asks why she came back. “So many scores to settle, Charlie. Thought I should start with you.”

The ending of Echoes doesn’t reveal which twin has returned to Charlie’s home, if it’s the same twin who showed up at Charlie’s reading, or whether Gina really died at the falls. In that sense, it’s a smart ending that keeps the viewer guessing and theorizing until well after the series finale fades to black.

Written by Reed Gaudens

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